Policy Brief

How Ideology Trumped Science: Why PEPFAR Has Failed to Meet its Potential

Region(s) Global
Topic(s) Policy Brief
Author(s) CGE Staff
Publish Date

Summary

This 2010 report from the Council for Global Equality and Center for American Progress analyzes the ideological and religious components that hamstrung PEPFAR from the beginning, and made recommendations – many of them then implemented – to build a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic grounded in science and advancing the human rights of LGBTQI+ and other key and vulnerable populations.